How Serious of Problem is Zika?

[bballwaterboy]

Been seeing a lot of news about this lately, such as this article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-upsurge-paralysis-condition-accompanies-050831706.html [Broken]

CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The doctor taps Zulay Balza’s knees with a hammer and she doesn’t feel a thing. She can’t squeeze his outstretched fingers or shut her eyelids. Her face is partially paralyzed.

“The weakness started in my legs and climbed upward. The face was last. After three days, I couldn’t walk,” said Balza, 49. “My legs felt like rags.”

Balza is a patient at the public University Hospital in Cucuta, at the epicenter of the Colombian outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Only Brazil has more cases.

Two weeks ago, she came under assault by Guillain-Barre (gee-YOHN-bah-RAY), a rare and sometimes fatal affliction that is the Western world’s most common cause of general paralysis.

Alarm over the Zika epidemic spreading across the Americas has been chiefly over birth defects, but frontline physicians believe a surge in Guillain-Barre cases may also be related.

How worried should the average person be? The paralysis part scares me!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Check this thread out
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-zika-virus.854441/